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RHS Students Greenfield Award Winning Film!
Congratulations to Mr. Siddiqui and Senior Film Student Ryan Ferraro and the rest of the production team that worked on the short film “After Hours” which won the prestigious Greenfield Youth Film Festival!!! This is an unprecedented win for Roxborough!!! Congrats to Ryan, Chris Monegro, Laika Horton, Khadar Bennett, Logan Rivers, Tymir Stout, Jordan Potts,…
Way to go Web Design!! Studio 312 wins BIG!
Studio 312 wins BIG! Students in Mrs. Bender’s Web Design 3 class, known as Studio312, won big at this year’s Media Arts & Design Competition for the district. Earning 1st place for their PBIS website to inform students about being a ROXSTARR, 3 students representing Studi312 will be representing the school and district at the State level competition in May!…
Class of ’21 website for the M.A.C. Academy
Students in Web Design 3 this past year spent their virtual class time exploring the design process from an industry perspective by creating a website for the Visual Arts Production, now Media Arts & Communication Academy. Students learned and explored the various positions and their job responsibilities in a communications/design firm and became Studio312, a…
SkillsUSA Grant Awarded to VAP
SkillsUSA and Lowe’s Home Improvement (#LowesSkillsUSA) have teamed up on a new grant program to support emerging SkillsUSA programs in career and technical education classrooms across the nation. The $100,000 grant from Lowe’s provides 100 eligible chapters with $1,000 worth of educational materials. Debi Bender, Roxborough High School Web Design Teacher & SDP SkillsUSA Advisor received one of…
Round 1 Done
Two exciting games were played after school on Thursday, 2/27. Mr. Fesnak’s Business team defeated the Film and Video Team in an extremely close game. Final score was 42-40 with Malik Gibson leading the Business team with 18 points. Tyson Harrington led the way for Film and Video and he also had 18 points. Biotech…
Round one underway
March Madness games are underway at Roxborough. Yesterday the Web Design team defeated Mr. Heleniak’s Business team 66 to 54. It was an exciting game with a decent crowd in attendance. Haneef Rushing-Davis scored 18 points for the Business team and Omar Taylor had 16 points. For the Web Design team James Fowler and Mr….
Academy March Madness
Our third annual March Madness competition is about to begin! The schedule is as follows: Tuesday, Feb 25th at 3:15 Web Design vs. Business (Heleniak) Thursday, Feb. 27th at 3:15 Kinesiology vs. Biotechnology AND Film and Video vs. Business (Fesnak) All players/staff must play in the after school game in order to move to the…
Fall Student of the Month – Malik Njeri-Mesquito
Name: Malik Njeri-Mesquito School: Roxborough HS Nominated By: Deborah Bender – Teacher If you were to ask Malik what has defined his high school experience, he would say “growth!” Malik was the first to say that he hasn’t always been the most motivated student. But if you ask his teacher and nominator, Debi Bender, he…
VAP Academy has DRONES!!!
Friday October 4 was a beautiful day to learn how to fly a drone. The Visual Arts Production Academy has 3 new drones. Students in Web 3, Film 3, and Graphic Design 1 ventured out in the sunshine to test our the drone. Bartholomew, the training drone named by the seniors in Web 3, took…